Sexism in remote collaboration in student teams

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Abstract

Computer-mediated communication is increasingly used in student interactions. Since this mode of communication loses none of the socio-cultural complexity that shapes face-to-face communication, gender and sexism is an important factor. We studied three student teams in an international classroom setting that used computer-mediated communication to collaborate on an IT project. Through the analysis of their chat logs we gained insights into the students' gendered and gendering interactions. We found indicators of sexism and noticed that both male and female students were using gendered language. We suggest further research on how to keep students from reifying the gendered status quo in their virtual collaboration.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 4th Conference on Gender and IT, GenderIT 2018
Publisher Association for Computing Machinery
Pages183-189
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9781450353465
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 14 May 2018
Event4th Conference on Gender and IT, GenderIT 2018 - Heilbronn, Germany
Duration: 14 May 201815 May 2018

Publication series

NameACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Conference

Conference4th Conference on Gender and IT, GenderIT 2018
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityHeilbronn
Period14/05/1815/05/18

Keywords

  • Computer-mediated communication
  • Gender
  • Online teaching

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